When Thomas Wavery arrives in Gibraltar on his way to take up his last posting as HM Consul General to Abyla, his passport is stolen by a barbary ape. Ignominy and shame have dogged his steps since he lost both the coveted Lisbon Embassy and his wife as a result of an affair with a younger woman.

The High Flyer

Literature & Fiction

NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE

Contemporary

The Harvill Press

Seemingly doomed to failure, the romance between Elena Silves, who received a vision of the Virgin Mary, and Gabriel Lung, a leader of the Peruvian terrorist group, the Shining Path, endures for over twenty years

The Vision of Elena Silves

Vintage

The Dancer Upstairs

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay. They marry, and he finds himself drawn into the eccentric, often hilarious dynamics of island life. Longing for children, the couple open their home to a disquieting guest, a teenage castaway, whose presence in their home begins to unravel their tenuously forged happiness.

Secrets of the Sea

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books USA

Torn by tragedy from his early life on a remote farm in Tasmania, Alex Dove has returned years later to start over. A chance encounter with quiet, alluring Merridy Bowman—a young woman similarly haunted by a tangled and catastrophic history—results in marriage, as two damaged souls unite to build a home, family, and livelihood far removed from civilization's bustle. Soon they are drawn into the unpredictable dynamics of small-town island life—and into the destructive orbit of an unscrupulous real estate agent who maintains a secret hold over both Doves. But when a shipwreck off the shore thrusts a troubled, possibly criminal teenage castaway into their world, Alex and Merridy's tenuously forged happiness is suddenly at grave risk, as they are forced to confront deeper questions about the true meaning of fulfillment.

<p>What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited GBP17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourner, too embarrassed to leave. Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. The extraordinary story that follows tells of one man's failed love, the temptations of unanticipated wealth, the secrets of damaged families and the price of being true to oneself. It is a romance for our times.</p>

Inheritance

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Vintage Books

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

<p>A novel set in South America. A young woman who has visions, Elena Silves, falls in love with a revolutionary soldier.</p>

Picador

The Dancer Upstairs (Large Print Edition)

ISIS Publishing

Isis Large Print Books

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